／pepper

Chicago has no snow. Just went to Buffalo. No snow anywhere. The world must have gotten much warmer!

Not an american citizen, but the demo candidates are too radical to me, even though I consider myself pro-demo. I will not be too surprised if the demo lose to the republic.

Obama is probably better than clinton, but not much. I am very disppointed by the demo party, and I am afraid that they will lose again. Basically demo party has lost the connection with the middle class.

agree with 文革回潮. Mr. D seems very blood-thirsty, which really frightens a small potato like me.

thanks. interesting. abc: what do you do for a living?

I wasted one minute

格丘山 seems very calculating. I would have tried to avoid him as much as possible. Seriously, everyone is busy with his/her own stuff. Also, to stare at someone is impolite even in US.

"Cat" is my favourite.

《货币战争》was written by a chinese software engineer in US who used to work for our company as a contractor. To be honest, 《货币战争》has too many mistakes to be taken seriously.

Hong Kang is probably an exception among former colonies. Some will probaly say "How do you know that". My answer is just look at India, Philippine, Egypt and many african countries, that were colonies. Also South Korea was never occupied by US.

Interactive broker (for professional), scottrad (for retail investors).

The irony is that it is hard to tell who is commi and who is anti-commi. Some are both ( though at different times).

It is well known that US foreign policy has double standard. Examples: 1. US friends in middle eastern, saudi, pakistan, are treated differently from other countries. Especially Pakstan. 2. South Ameirca, the US backyard, has been ruled by dictators for centuries until recently.

stranger than fiction

Though 阿慧 has become a non-chinese, she still is very interested in those chinese (especially chinese politics), so we shall call 阿慧 a honorary chinese.

明治天皇? No, no, he was more symbolic than anything else.

whose MJ is "揭密者"???

Another self-hate pervert.

In any case, 文友 should returns the books to their owner.

It's a fact that the senior management of US corporation have been paid more and more independent of their performance, while the ordinary employees have suffered from benifit cuts, layoffs, pension cut, and other "cost-cuting" measures. Eg. The chief technology officer of my company was pushed out after wasting $1 billions on a failed project, but she was among the five highest paid employees even in the year she was pushed out. Now even some people from Wall Street are beginning talk about the exc